"Alan Nugent, CTO of Novell, thinks he knows how to drive wide adoption of the Linux desktop. How? Make it so users can't tell (and don't care) it's not Windows, and make it so admins can manage thousands of Linux desktops as easily as Windows. " Newforge has the article .

PC Buyer's Guide has posted a shootout comparing Max OS X to Windows XP to Linux, comparing basic, factory-included functionality. It includes a huge side-by-side chart. The overview seems to be pretty evenhanded, and isn't too preoccupied with declaring a winner and drawing much of a hard and fast conclusion. The bottom line: OS X is a very usable and elegant OS, XP has a leg up on some functionality (and of course more apps), and Linux is an impressive contender.

MorphZone reports that MorphOS 1.4 is now available via FTP.

For those that have no idea what ReactOS is, Flexbeta took some time and explained it, covered it’s current status and write about where they plan to go. See the full review here.

Here is some information about Windows XP 64bit. It has some features not found on any 32bit Windows version, but it is missing some other features not ported/tested yet.

Pieter Van den Abeele of the PPC/Gentoo project answers a few questions to PPCNux.

Sun announced yesterday that a native Java version for the AMD 64 bit processor will be available on Linux and Windows platforms, allowing companies to migrate their current Java applications from a 32-bit to 64-bit computing platform.

Amiga Inc has released another 'Club Amiga Monthly' article. This article written by Hans Joerg Frieden, one of the core AmigaOS4 developers, covers the Shared Libraries system for AmigaOS4.

Mark Mitchell recently announced the release of GCC 3.3.1, including "a very large number of bug-fixes relative to GCC 3.3". Mark goes on to add, "The next release of GCC will be GCC 3.3.2, which will be a bug-fix release."

Novell Vice Chairman Chris Stone says the company will keep its flagship operating system in maintenance mode as it gears up for Linux.

Here it is again the monthly AROS news update plus new screenshots.

Back when Lycoris was still Redmond Linux, they licensed their source code off of SCO's Caldera Open Linux. According to Lycoris, that license is going to insulate them and their users from SCO's licensing fee requirements.

I was watching Giga.de on TV here in Germany this evening and was surprised to see a feature on Pegasos and Morphos (probably to be repeated this weekend). A web article about the feature is available here. I would guess that Giga would be of interest (and probably already well-known) to OSNews readers in Germany. While many of its features are Win- or gaming-oriented, Giga is one of the few TV outlets for features on hardware, overclocking and benchmarking, Linux and, as with the Pegasos article, even more exotic matters.

When HP World starts in a few days, users can expect to hear about some new server management software that covers Unix, Linux and Windows in one go, and it's called Nimbus.